Battlefield Premium has made EA a lot of money

“We don’t ever want to charge for our maps and insisted to EA that this attitude was crucial when it came to keeping our community happy and playing together,” DICE senior producer Patrick Bach said in 2010, about Battlefield Bad Company 2. In 2012, Battlefield Premium became a thing – charging gamers an extra $50 for maps above the $60 they paid for the game. Expect more of that sort, because it’s worked incredibly well for EA and DICE.

I’m in two minds about Premium; for those die-hard players it’s certainly a pretty good value-added service – but for the rest, it’s just led to player fragmentation and longer queues for the base maps.

How many of you subscribe to BF Premium? And to those of you, do you feel its added a significant amount of value – perhaps $50 worth – to the game?

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